Effect of contact angle on drainage and imbibition in regular polygonal tubes

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 273-291

  Ma, Shouxiang ^a   Mason, Geoffrey ^b   Morrow, Norman R ^a,c  

^a WESTERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

capillarity; contact angle hysteresis; displacement efficiency; imbibition; meniscus curvature; polygonal tubes

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY TUBES; CONTACT ANGLE; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DRAINAGE; FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRY; HYSTERESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; PRESSURE; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); WATER;

CORNER ANGLE; INHIBITION; MENISCUS; POLYGONAL TUBES; WETTABILITY;

CAPILLARITY;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; HYSTERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0001693332     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0927-7757(96)03702-8     Document Type: Article

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